To the Editor:
In repeated columns, Nicholas Kristof has chastised academics for rejecting diversity in ideology. I have been an academic for more than 20 years, and have never witnessed discrimination based on political ideology. Yet even in the sciences, academics are now overwhelmingly liberal.
Academics are trained to distinguish reality from lies or fantasy, and to respect facts and sound arguments. If that biases academics toward liberalism, then there is a problem with conservatism, not with academia.
ANDREA LIU
Swarthmore, Pa.
The writer is a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania.
Note from KBJ: Andrea Liu has been in academia so long that she doesn't realize she's in an echo chamber.
